Thursday, July 16, 2015

The US has only trained 60 Syrian rebels: Here’s one big reason why

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter admitted to the Senate that U.S. armed forces have only trained 60 Syrians to fight against the Islamic Caliphate in Syria, and there might be a particularly big reason why the U.S. can’t find more trustworthy fighters: biometric intelligence gathered during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is identifying many Syrians as terrorists. . . .